Re: [CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

On 22.5.2012 20:18, Les Mikesell wrote:

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Markus Falb markus.falb@fasel.at wrote:

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There are a lot of 3rd party repositories around, and my understanding is that the only sane way is not to trust a whole repository but only selected and therefore tested packages. Consequently though you will have to maintain your own repository.

But with EPEL and others with policies to not overwrite base packages, you won't get anything that you didn't explicitly install (assuming you trust them to follow their policy...).

There are repositories that might not have such policies. There are rpm downloads that are not yum-ified.